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Exhibition of new work and works in progress, including photos, drawings, photo-drawings, transitional works, transitory works, reflective installations and photo installations, many of which changed, were added, or were destroyed throughout the course of the exhibition.

For more information and to watch a video made by José Garcia to accompany the exhibition, please visit the gallery website www.pfoac com

A network of monofilament is made by marking the points between pores on an enlarged photo of the artist’s back. Positioned over a map of stars situated overhead during the exhibition it forms a structure of lines into which fine thread is worked. A vaulted architecture of cellular layers emerges, attached to the floor by steel weights which mark the star points. Between the vertical lines/pores are spaces large enough to stand in.

Elastic cord is woven between steel cables, creating a space large enough for a person to enter and be supported, leaning into the webbed threads. The cables trace a “constellation” of skin on the artist’s back. [See Out here in space, 2005.]

20 photographs are presented on a dark wall to mimic a natural history museum exhibition, complete with place names. The photographs are close-ups of my sagging postpartum belly; the place names, chosen by their similarity to my first name, are of sites around the world, and the named universe.

A membrane of cast rubber latex swells almost imperceptibly in and out, in a mechanical semblance of breathing. It mimics the surface of a wall with gyproc removed, its surface more like skin than paint. It is backlit in a softly lit room, giving it a film-like presence. The sound of the fans inflating and deflating is at first calming, but its robotic persistence eventually becomes menacing.

Three larger-than-human size forms lie on a wooden platform. Each inflates and deflates at 3-10 second intervals, gently rising and falling as though breathing. The rhythmic sound of the fans emphasizes the overall sensation of sleep. Each is lit from below. Low ambient lighting combined with the inflating movement can cause the illusion that they are nestled into the platform, or that the platform itself is moving.

The wall is built floor to ceiling with a slight curve at one end and projects into the centre of the exhibition space. It has been built up with plaster “bumps” which are hollow in the back to accommodate light bulbs installed on specially built stands. The light bulbs heat the bumps as well as softly illuminating them through the opening at one end of the wall: they are the sole light source in the work.